Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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News Contributing to Humanity
FOOD ALLERGY INITIATIVE HONORS RESTAURANTEUR EMERIL LAGASSE AND OFFERS HOPE TO THOSE FATALLY ALLERGIC TO PEANUTS New Orleans was the motif for the Food Allergy Initiative’s December 7 ball, at which that city’s culinary master, Emeril Lagasse, was presented with FAI’s Lifetime Achievement Award by Four Seasons owner Julian Niccolini, who declared: “Nobody in this…
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Israel News Honoring Tradition
THE MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE SALUTES CLINT EASTWOOD AND HIS FILM ‘INVICTUS’ When 6-foot-2-inch Clint Eastwood greeted me with “Hello, sweetheart!” he made my day! We were at the December 1 Museum of the Moving Image Salutes Clint Eastwood gala following an advance screening of his latest opus, “Invictus,” at the Paris Theatre. Award…
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News A Mega-Bash With a Mission
Lighthouse Shines Spotlight on Honorees That Include a Composer, Movie Star, Interior Designer and Cosmetics Packager Supreme “It’s a good news story… a change from cheating and scandal,” said WNYW FOX 5 news anchor Ernie Anastos, host of “Lightyears,” the November 10 Lighthouse International Salutes the Arts gala, held at the Plaza. The honorees were…
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News Channeling Sholom
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND HONORS BROOKLYN-BORN NOBEL LAUREATE DR. RICHARD AXEL “I called every client I knew to shoot someone [in order] to get visibility on Page Six [of the New York Post], joshed criminal defense lawyer Benjamin Brafman, master of ceremonies at the Israel Cancer Research Fund’s November 4 “Tower of Hope” ball, held…
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The Schmooze Celebrating Survival
TANENBAUM AWARD CEREMONY HONORS A MAN OF WORDS AND A MAN OF THE ARTS “I guess what I just experienced was what we now call a Nobel Prize moment,” New York Times religion columnist Peter Steinfels said as he accepted the Media Bridge-Builder Award from Blu Greenberg, founding president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance,…
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News Sea of Faces
ABOARD THE INTREPID: RABIN MEDICAL CENTER GALA REMEMBERS ITS NAMESAKE, YITZHAK RABIN The American Friends of Rabin Medical Center’s November 2 “Broadway on the Hudson” gala aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum celebrated one of Israel’s premier hospitals and honored Teva North America, a division of a global pharmaceutical enterprise with roots in…
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News Written Words
LOSS AND HOPE AT THE STELLAR ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION RITA HAYWORTH GALA Honorees, award presenters and guests at the October 27 “So Near & Yet So Far” Alzheimer’s Association Rita Hayworth Gala had a vested reason for the urgency to find a cure for a disease that currently afflicts 5.3 million Americans. When she was 19,…
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News Songs About Roots
NEW YORK WOMEN’S FOUNDATION IMPROVES WOMEN’S LIVES AND OFFERS HOPE “We can’t promote human rights abroad unless we can defend human rights at home,” author and journalist Sheryl WuDunn said at the October 14 New York Women’s Foundation dinner at Gotham Hall. The dinner honored her and her husband (via video), New York Times correspondent…
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